Lubomír Zaorálek

Lubomír Zaorálek (born 6 September 1956) is a Czech politician who has been Minister of Culture since August 2019. Zaorálek previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka from 2014 to 2017. He has been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 1996 and unsuccessfully ran for the premiership in the 2017 election but his Social Democratic Party received only 7% of the vote.

Lubomír Zaorálek

MP
Minister of Culture
Assumed office
28 August 2019
Prime MinisterAndrej Babiš
Preceded byAntonín Staněk
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
29 January 2014 – 13 December 2017
Prime MinisterBohuslav Sobotka
Preceded byJan Kohout
Succeeded byMartin Stropnický
4th Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
11 July 2002 – 14 August 2006
Preceded byVáclav Klaus
Succeeded byMiloslav Vlček
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
1 June 1996
Personal details
Born (1956-09-06) 6 September 1956
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Political partySocialist Party (1986–1989)
Civic Forum (1990–1991)
Civic Movement (1991–1994)
Social Democratic Party (1994–present)
Other political
affiliations		National Front (1986–1989)
Alma materMasaryk University

Early life

He was born on 6 September 1956 in Ostrava,[1] and graduated from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (today Masaryk University) in Brno in 1982.[2] He worked as a dramaturge at Czechoslovak Television in Ostrava.[3]

Political career

During the Velvet Revolution in November 1989 he participated in Civic Forum.[4]

Zaorálek was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996 as a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), becoming the party's vice chairman in 2009. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.

He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2017 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2014-07-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "CV of Lubomir Zaoralek" (in Czech). Pronet Media Ostrava. 2010. Archived from the original on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  3. "Filmova databaze FDB" (in Czech). Filmová databáze s.r.o. (FDb.cz). Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. "CSSD" (in Czech). Czech Social Democratic Party. January 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  5. "Lubomír Zaorálek". Government of the Czech Republic. January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
Political offices
Preceded by
Václav Klaus		 Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
2002–2006		 Succeeded by
Miloslav Vlček
Preceded by
Jan Kohout		 Minister of Foreign Affairs
2014–2017		 Succeeded by
Martin Stropnický
Preceded by
Antonín Staněk		 Minister of Culture
2019–present		 Incumbent
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